High Energy Physics Seminars
Spring 2003

The Physics Department's High Energy Physics Seminars are normally held at
2:00pm on Tuesdays and 12:40pm on Fridays, in 2165 New Physics Building.
Fall 2002 seminar schedule is here.

Friday
January 3
Andrei Nomerotski, Fermilab; "First results from Run II"
Tuesday
January 7
Jim Fry, University of Florida; "How I spent my European vacation"
Friday
January 10
Arthur Kosowsky, Rutgers; "Is Galaxy Dynamics Related to Fundamental Physics?"
Tuesday
January 14
Seminar cancelled
Friday
January 17
Seminar postponed for Friday January 24 (speaker lost his voice).
Tuesday
January 21
Bogdan Dobrescu, Fermilab; "The Standard Model in six dimensions"
Friday
January 24
Konstantin Matchev, University of Florida; "The LHC-LC complementarity and other lessons from the Arlington Linear Collider Workshop"
Tuesday
January 28
Seminar cancelled
Friday
January 31
Seminar cancelled
Tuesday
February 4
Christos Charmousis, Universite Paris-Sud XI; "Gravity in 5 dimensions" (abstract)
Friday
February 7
David Finkelstein, Georgia Tech; "Ultraquantum theory" (abstract)
Tuesday
February 11
Laurent Baulieu, Paris University; "A late birthday present for Pierre Ramond: The "nest" of the Kalb-Ramond two-form in 8D topological gravity and supergravity"
Friday
February 14
Valentine day seminar: Martin Schmaltz, Boston University; "The little higgs from a simple group"
Tuesday
February 18
Ali Nayeri, IFT; "Braneworlds in Kerr-AdS5 background"
Friday
February 21
Cosmin Macesanu, Oklahoma State University; "Universal Extra Dimensions and Gravity" (abstract)
Tuesday
February 25
Edward Farhi, MIT; "Algorithmic Speedup from Quantum Mechanics"
Friday
February 28
Marc Soussa, University of Florida; ``A Generic Problem with Relativistic Formulations of MOND''
Tuesday
March 4
Pisin Chen, SLAC; "Is dark matter actually black?" (abstract) (seminar postponed for Fall 2003)
Friday
March 7
Richard Wigmans, Texas Tech University; "PeV cosmic rays: a window on the leptonic era?" (abstract)
Tuesday
March 11
Spring Break
Friday
March 14
Spring Break
Tuesday
March 18
D. Buchholz, Goettingen; "TBA"
Friday
March 21
C. Rebbi, Boston University; "Semiclassical methods for the description of tunneling in high-energy collisions" (abstract)
Tuesday
March 25
Fu-Sin Ling, University of Florida; "Neutrino Mixings and Unified Theories"
Friday
March 28
Alan Guth, MIT; "Eternal Inflation and Past Incompleteness" (abstract)
Tuesday
April 1
April Fool's day seminar: Charles Thorn, University of Florida; "Ten things I didn't say during my talk at PierreFest"
Friday
April 4
Philip Mannheim, University of Connecticut; "Living with Large Lambda" (abstract)
Tuesday
April 8
Anupam Mazumdar, McGill University; "TBA" (postponed)
Friday
April 11
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University; "Can the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w be less than -1?"
Tuesday
April 15
Iosif Khriplovich, The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics; "Quantum Power Law Correction to the Newton Law" (cancelled - speaker did not get visa)
Friday
April 18
Richard Brower, Boston University; "String/Gauge Duality: (re)discovering the QCD String in AdS Space" (abstract)
Monday
April 21
12:40 pm
Carlos Nunez, Cambridge University; "Some aspects of Gauge and Gravity dualities" (Please note special time and date) (abstract)
Friday
April 25
Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida; "TBA"

Seminar organizer: Konstantin Matchev
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Last modified: February 20, 2003